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February 2015

Mortality due to coronary heart disease has declined significantly in the US during the past few decades. A study published in 2007 in The New England Journal of Medicine by Ford et al. showed that there were 341,745 fewer deaths in 2000 in comparison to 1980. Death rates in 2000 for both men and...Read more

The map shows the percentage of parents in each California county who opted out of giving vaccines to their children for reasons of personal belief (the darker the shading the higher the percentage) and whether the county voted democratic (blue) or republican (red) in the 2012 presidential election...Read more

Ever since antibiotics were made widely accessible by mass production in the 1940's, their use has increased significantly each decade. However, along with this increase in use, antibiotic effectiveness has also declined. A recent study done by CDDEP showed that global sales of antibiotics for...Read more

In the United States, creating laws and policy through Congressional legislation is the key method for regulating issues that are affecting the American population — including critical issues like antibiotic use and resistance. As antibiotic resistance has risen over the past decade, Congress has...Read more

In his presentation at TEDMED 2014 , CDDEP Director Ramanan Laxminarayan spoke about approaching antibiotic resistance as a natural resource. He contends that we can learn from the field of energy conservation, and use dual strategies of conservation and innovation to preserve antibiotic...Read more